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- 3. a family or line of ruler, a succession of sovereigns of a country belong in to a single family or tracing their descent to a common ancestor.
- 5. also called the Decalogue, list of religious precepts that, according to various passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and were engraved on two tablets of stone.
- 9. a political system consisting of an independent city having sovereignty over contiguous territory and serving as a centre and leader of political, economic, and cultural life.
- 12. an ancient pre-Islamic religion of Iran that survives there in isolated areas an, more prosperously, in India, where the descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parsis, or Parsees.
- 13. a writing system that employs characters in the form of pictures.
- 16. a region in southwestern Asia where the world's earliest civilizations developed. It's housed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers but sometimes is defined to include areas now know as eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and most of Iraq.
- 17. a specific from of organization defined by complexity, division of labor, permanence, professionals management, hierarchical coordination and control, strict chain of command, and legal authority.
- 18. in Judaism, in the broadest sense, the substance of divine revelation to Israel, the people; God's revealed teaching or guidance to human kind.
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- 1. the final technological and cultural stage in the Stone-Bronze-Iron Age sequence. The date of the full Iron Age, in which this metal for the most part replaced bronze in implements and weapons, varied geographically beginning in the Middle East and southeastern Europe about 1200 BCE but in China not until about 600 BCE.
- 2. a major political political unit in which the metropolis, or single sovereign authority, exercises controls over territory of great extent or a number of territories or people through formal annexations or various forms of informal domination.
- 4. a belief in existence of one god, or in the oneness of God.
- 6. a government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
- 7. originally, the royal palace in ancient Egypt. The word came to be used metonymically, for the Egyptian king under the New Kingdom, and by the 22nd dynasty it has been adopted as an epithet of respect.
- 8. the belief in many gods.
- 10. the dispersion of Jews among Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered "in exile" outside Palestine or present day Israel.
- 11. a ranking of positions of authority often associated with a chain of command and control.
- 14. an amount of something left over when requirements have been met. An excess of production or supply over demand.
- 15. an ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley eastward to the shores of the Red Sea, southward to Khartoum (in what is now Sudan), and westward to the Libyan Desert.